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In the latest personification of the future head of state of Sri Lanka in its ongoing constitutional reform saga, the country has now decided to do away with the Executive Presidency altogether and to introduce a hybrid “Executive Prime Minister.’

The Lok Sabha Speaker Ms Meera Kumar has directed the Union Fertilizer Minister and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's son M K Alagiri to answer main question by reading out the reply in English and the supplements could be fielded by his deputy Srikant Jena.

The Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) not only a staunch nation builder but also helps all spheres of life in Sri Lanka have fathomed more than a century and to be exact for 104 years in the sphere of nation building, this year also celebrates the Silver Jubilee of their hallmark of excellence in conduction Techno Exhibition – Techno 2010.

Sports Loving President His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa and his son Namal Rajapaksa, MP Hambantota District, paid an inspection tour yesterday (17th July 2010) to see the work in progress of Suriyawewa – Hambantota International Cricket Stadium.

The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences. Injection drug use (IDU) is one of the main modes of HIV transmission in parts of Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. "Apart from medical harms associated with drug use, all other harms

The fifth largest cement manufacturer in the world- Italcementi Group, who started operations in Sri Lanka in 1998 has changed its name to Singha Cement and now ventures in a national effort by donating a significant quantity of cement for the construction of homes for 150 families in the Varikuttu Uru village in Vavuniya.

After the much hyped India, Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ talks in Islamabad which suddenly got derailed, there is speculation in New Delhi that the Pakistan Army Chief may have intervened at a particular stage, to ensure that the bonhomie was short-lived.

The XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC) will take place in Vienna, Austria, (18-23 July 2010). The conference theme, Rights Here, Right Now, (which also aims to address the issues of men who have sex with men (MSMs), particularly in relation to HIV/AIDS), opens in the backdrop of a rainbow of hope and despair. There are some recent cheerful tidings to pep up an otherwise gloomy scenario for this marginalized community.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah seems to have won a reprieve for himself following a visit to New Delhi to seek the support of the Congress leadership as well as that of the UPA government, following strong criticism by the opposition as well as a section of the Congress on his performance and demand for his removal as CM.

There are indications that External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Afghanistan donors' conference in Kabul on Tuesday.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that India had given Rs 3,000 crores for the benefit of the internally displaced Tamils in Lanka and the government also allocated Rs 1,000 crores for the construction of 50,000 houses in Northern Sri Lanka.